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Foundational Skills for New Sales Hires: The Top 7

LSA Global

Yet too often, organizations f ocus too narrowly on product training and neglect the foundational skills for new sales hires to be set up for success. Foundational business sales training should include a primer on business acumen : key business drivers, financial metrics, and industry-specific trends.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. In addition, official statistics may underestimate intangible investment (spending on research and development, training, etc), which has been gaining importance in serviced-based economies. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. 3 – Training stakeholders to support growth. strategic hires).

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Inequality Isn’t Just Due to Market Forces — It’s Caused by Decisions the Boss Makes, Too

Harvard Business

An organizational focus is associated with stable employment with low turnover, extensive use of training, and the dominance of internal considerations, such as a desire for equity in pay. Could we treat workforce training and other investments in employee skill and well-being similarly?

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

1 to 1

By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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940 Chinese Firms Halt Trading; China Allows Houses as Margin, Bans Use of Term "Equity Disaster"; Two Rules, Two Questions

MishTalk

Besides financing the bubble with new money, the Chinese government has suspended IPOs, cut trading fees, and relaxed requirements on margin loans (for example, Chinese retail investors can now use their apartments as collateral ). Even after its recent plunge, Chinese stock prices are overvalued.